Chapter 548

---- The pause was brief; as soon as they recognized the Dukes crest, they let us through.

I shifted the lace curtain slightly.

Outside, the city was bustling, lively, busy.

Thad never seen such prosperity before.

My eyes darted across the massive stone buildings we passed, the crowded streets, filled with exotic goods and spiced aromas.

Ten years...

the world had moved on without me.

"Fix that expression.

Remember who you are now," Freya muttered, adjusting her headscarf.

With every meter forward, we drew closer to the hill, to the Dukes castle.

When the carriage finally stopped, I felt the coachman dismount.

Sweat dampened my back.

Panic coiled around my throat.

«My daughter.

Iam doing this for my daughter.

I cannot fail» I swallowed the lump in my throat, and as the door swung open, I adjusted my gloves and stepped into the role I had to play.

Katherine Pembroke died in that asylum.

I am Rossella Everhart.

The Duchess of Everhart.

---- From the moment I saw him, everything about him fascinated me.

His roughness, his wild, piercing blue eyes, his sharp and masculine features...

his disdain...

spilled from my

«Not once...

not even once...

the movement of the carriage, the coachman urging the horses forward, hoping

pulled back the curtain, peering

the horizon,

black

to fight to break

"Dont be nervous.

just fine," Freyas voice pulled me

met her wise, dark eyes

eaten since

I couldnt.

piece of bread refused to

That word didnt even begin

person in that house who had ever genuinely cared for me, and now! wanted her to come with me so I

together, a thousand thoughts racing

the carriage halted before

---- would be condemned.

where it

our mother had been the

We never knew her.

spoke

Katherine regained consciousness, she was already on her way to that mental

have the heart to kill her, so he hid

the betrothed of the Duke

was a rushed,

out of wedlock, but no one dared to say it openly in front of the

they didnt respect

gave me

whispered behind my back» ook I staggered toward the bed, but my legs wouldnt hold

over a fold in the carpet and my own feet, I collapsed onto

So much pain...

that thing inside my

heart beat

smile, staring at the white ceiling, my trembling hand

final moments, I

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